The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-27
KILLED nIS WIFE.
4 Jealous Husband Shoots His wife
and Attempts Suicide.

AT ABOUT eleven O'CLOCK luesuay
morning our community, says the Dill
lon Tribune, was startled and Mortified
by the recurrence OF one of the gun
tragedies" which are rapidly making
famous the "burg on tie Blacktail."
Frequent as these murders have be-
come with us, and accustomend as We
are to their gastly %enactments, each
succeeding n occasions no less ex-
element and horror.
Mrs. Kate Grabhorn wa a pretty and
petite young oma of nineteen; her
husband and murderer, a man of thirty
five. They possessed a little child, Of
about two years of age. The husband,
we learn, was cursed with an ungovern-
able and brutal temper, and was subject
to unreasoning fits of jealousy, as their
neighbors say, "causeless and without
foundation"
The family came to Dillon about four
months ago, from Randolph, Kansas, and
for some little time both husband and
wife has been working at Jas. Mauldin's
ranch, about twelve miles from town. OF
late his conduct toward her had become
80 brutal, his jealosy 30 uncomfortable
that on Monday. after a severe quarrel,
she left him and walked to town with
her little child in her arms, and with
the intention of finding work here and
supporting herself apart from him, lie
had taken all the household goods. ex-
cepting two quilts.
While in town she stopped at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Tom Tritt, she being a sister
of John Tritt's wife.
After her desertion, her husband must
have brooded on the matter until he
worked himself into an insane frenzy of
murderous rage. At any rate he came
to town Tuesday with the one mania in
possession of all his faculties-murder
and suicide. That it was p~remeditated
there can be no boubt.
lie arrived at about half-past ten and
went at once in search of her. Finding
her alone, he bluntly requested her to
return and live with him again; to which
she replied. mo" Without a further
word to prepare her for the horrible
death he had designed for herewith no
moment granted her to form n prayer to
usher her soul into the "dim beyond
and with n swift and merciless hand he
drew the weapon and fired with true and
steady aim.
The woman had no time even TO utter
n scream, the bullet entering just above
the right car, passing clear through the
bead and burying itself in the logs of the
wall.
Hardly had the report sounded ere two
more came in quick succession. the pis.
tol directed at himself, but whittier his
nerve failed him with the first, unfortun.
ately for himself his aim failed of its
object, both balls grazing the forehead
ihflicting severe but not dangerous
wounds.
By now the neighbors had reached the
scene, and when Mrs. Tritt opened the
door a gastly sight met their eyes. Up
on the the floor. her living babe clasped
in her dead arms, lay the remains of the
once pretty little wife, Kate Grabhorn
bathed in the life-fiuid still gushing
from her ear, while, upon his hands and
knees, cropping for the pistol which had
dropped from his nerveless fingers
blood pouring in streams down his face
and obscuring his vision vas the murder
er and would-be suicide.
Had the neighbors been a momen'
later he would doubtless have recovered
the weapon and made a sure conclusion
to the tragedy.
Officers were soon on the spot ant
Grabhorn wa taken at once to the jai
where his injuries were at once attende,
to. For several hours his recovery wa
doubtful, but with skilful surgical treat
ment he had SO far improved as to hav
an examination in court yesterday. II
pleaded guilty and was remanded to jai
without bail, to await the action of tn
next Grand Jury.
On the afternoon OF the day of tn
murder, an inquest was held upon III
body of poor Kate Grabhorn, ''ther
lying dead" and a verdict returned
accordance with the facts.
The murder expresses no regret fl
the horrible act, save that he fsiled
kill himself. He has however the a
most certain consolation that what h
: failed of accomplishing, the machiner
, ofthe Law will do successfully.
THIS continues the chapter Of horro
which began in 's2 with the accidental {
: shooting of pretty Eva Clark, the mu
r der-sulcidal affair of 'S4, in which II
Perry murdered honest, wholesome
Nose Morrison and failed by the fractio
of an inch Of ushering a woman I'M
I eternity with them,-the Glendale mu
ders, the Birch Creek affair. and othel
numerous and CHASTITY, until one though
, is in each II ind, n question on ever
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